Let's Make _ Together.
This experimental pilot project, run by award-winning creative producer & writer Catrin Kemp, will begin on Wednesday 17th September 2025 and run for 90 minutes for 14 weeks, via Zoom.
Catrin will be supported by illustrator and creative mentor Claudine O’Sullivan. Catrin and Claudine met in 2023 through The New Mothers’ Writing Circle and have been hatching a plan to work together in snatched conversations on pavements and in playgrounds ever since.
At its core, Let’s Make _ Together is an Artist’s Way accountability group.
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You can of course do The Artist’s Way alone. Both Catrin and Claudine have done so. Using the writing prompts and tasks, and the bedrock tools of the 12-week recovery programme (Morning Pages, Artist Dates, walks and writing for guidance), you will still benefit enormously, and probably in ways unimaginable to you right now. But if you’d prefer some structure and accountability, read on…
Let’s Make _ Together is for anyone: Those starting out or perhaps revisiting a creative practice after years, even decades of blocks or neglect. Those who make their living as a creative. Those who don’t consider themselves creative (fyi you are).
But! (health warning) you shouldn't do Let’s Make _ Together unless you’re willing to come face to face with what’s keeping you blocked: Often this is fear manifesting as numbing through addictive behaviours, people pleasing, jealousy, competition or cynicism.
A Note About Your God / Goddess
Let’s Make _ Together is a spiritual programme because creativity is spiritual. You are still welcome to join if you’re a hardcore atheist (like Claudine), but you’ll need to accept that central to this work there is a Creative Life Force which exists outside of yourself. Call Her or Him or It what you want: Allah, Jehovah, The All-Knowing, Yahweh, Lord (or perhaps Lady?!)
In classic 12-step recovery programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous, this is called the Higher Power. You can call it whatever suits you and feels most comfortable - The Artist’s Way suggests various names and you can choose yours as the weeks progress.
Let’s Make _ Together will be a supportive, non-competitive space. You are welcome to take part, whatever discipline you’re interested or experienced in, whether you have 50 years of practice under your belt or a small whisper of an idea for your first poem.
But be aware that your God, Goddess, (or Creative Life Force or Higher Power... etc) will have their own ideas for you, and that, through the course of the programme, new pieces of art, music, poems or even entirely new, as-yet-invented creative disciples or movements may begin.
You might think you’re a techno DJ when in fact you’re also a sculptor. You might - like Catrin - think you’re writing a book of short stories when in fact you’re called to stand on stages and perform (a part she thought was long dead. You can read more about Catrin’s creative recovery below).
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Ready to go? Sign up here.
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The Artist’s Way.
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Julia Cameron - filmmaker, poet and author of over 50 books, named by New York Times as “Queen of Change”, published The Artist’s Way in 1992. It is the backbone of Let’s Make _ Together and you will need your own hard copy.
Let’s Make _ Together – and creativity more generally – is not a solo endeavour. Creativity is porous and of the universe. In doing this work you will again become a child at play and you will benefit from others around you to do this amazing, slightly scary, beautiful work.
If you're open to it, the process may feel vertiginous - like, “Woah, all these things keep happening to me! I won this prize! I got offered that?!”
Being in a supportive, non-competitive, non-judgemental community will help ground you when it can all feel like it’s happening too fast, or when your ego shows up.
It will also keep you accountable when the noise of the world (mostly social media) will want to distract you from making your art.
This is not humble work but it is humbling. It's slow work, chipping away each day using the core tools; Morning Pages every day and an Artist Date with yourself each week.
These are non-negotiable and the foundation to Let’s Make _ Together.
A Note About Synchronicity
In The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron talks a lot about ‘synchronicity’.
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These are serendipitous opportunities, events, people even, which will be gifted to you over and over again.
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The universe opens to you, shows you a door or a path, offers you something with its incredible, unimaginable abundance. You dance with 'God' (Higher Power / Creative Life Force etc) in a way, by accepting these and opening yourself to even more.
A Word About Perfectionism
This is for your practice - you can show up as you are, with no pressure to share. The group will - for want of a better term - go on a creative journey together, or at least in parallel.
Perfection is a myth so don't aim for it. AI will give us perfection. Let's be human and make messy, human art.
You do not need to say anything on the calls, nor switch your camera on your phone or laptop on. Catrin & Claudine will encourage everyone to show up as they are, on that given day, not to apologise for the state they’re in but to settle into the 90 minutes which will include:
Meditative practices
Writing / journaling
Time spent on that week’s ‘tasks’
Space for those who wish to share
Space for questions
Celebration of milestones reached or synchronous gifts.
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A Note About Morning Pages & Artist Dates
Morning Pages are 3 sides of A4, written longhand and without judgement or too much thought. They are done, not written. Don't worry too much if you don't do them in the morning - think of them as daily pages. Everyone who takes part in Let's Make _ Together will agree to do them. Artist Dates are also a non-negotiable element of Let's Make _ Together. You will take your inner Artist Child on a playful, purely-for-pleasure date. This might sound odd now, but in a few weeks time it will have become second nature.
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Ready to go? Sign up here.
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Your questions answered
FAQs
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Why 14 weeks? Why not 12?
In both Catrin and Claudine’s experience, 12 weeks is not enough to complete the tasks in the later stages of The Artist's Way. Around weeks 9 and 10 there is a huge amount of self reflection and so Let's Make _ Together has been elongated to make sure there is enough time and space to go through these stages.
I’m not really a “group” person - can I still join?
Catrin has been working with groups since 2020 when she founded The New Mothers’ Writing Circle.
Now, nearly 200 people later, she is very experienced in holding space (both online and in person) for introverts, extroverts and those somewhere in the middle (ambiverts).
Catrin is also “not a group person” but wishes that she had had a group when she did The Artist’s Way.
Claudine has both hosted and attended group workshops and mentoring sessions- she is understanding of the need for many creatives, herself included, to benefit from the support of a group without feeling the pressure to contribute.
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But I can’t stand Julia Cameron!! Also - isn't this an infringement of Intellectual Property?!
Please take the advice in the book with a pinch of salt. It is - to use a modern term - quite woo. But then making art is quite woo. If you can be onboard with 85% of what Ms Cameron wrote, that is good enough.
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Julia Cameron’s team have given their blessing for this project and there are some guidelines Catrin & Claudine will follow, detailed here.
I have no idea what I want to make (I’m not a creative person) - can I still join?
You ARE a creative person.
There is no way you’d have read all this information if you weren’t interested in making something. You may well be good at science or engineering, or perhaps tech or food or data is your language, but there are things not yet created which only you can make.
We have no idea what will happen.
Shall we see?
